• kalleboo@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    It mostly just shows how crazy fast modern SSDs are that they can do swap duties with performance that is acceptable to many people. The SSD in my MacBook Pro can read/write at 5-6 GB/s. That means it can write out the whole 8 GB of memory of one of those smaller machines in under 2 seconds. As long as your current task fits in 8 GB and you’re fine waiting 2 seconds to switch between apps…

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      7 months ago

      Yes if you don’t run out of ram you won’t face ram performance issues…

      I wouldn’t be ok waiting 2 seconds to switch between apps on something the price of Mac laptop, even the cheapest m1.